The leadership of the APS knows.

The leadership of the APS knows that they have been accused of inadequate accountability to inadequate standards of conduct and competence within their public service.

They know. Which begs a at least two questions;

1. If they could, why would they not simply publish their high enough standards of conduct and competence?

2. If they could, why would they not point to the due process(es) by which they can be held accountable to those standards?

Obviously, they cannot; they have neither high enough standards nor are they actually accountable to them.

The school board’s own Code of Ethics is by their own admission, utterly unenforceable. So much for their “higher standards” of conduct.

The fact that they spend millions of dollars on cost-is-no-object legal defenses in pursuit of admissions of no guilt, questions their accountability even to the law, the lowest standards of conduct acceptable to civilized human beings.

Why would voters trust people with inadequate standards of conduct and competence and, who are arguably unaccountable to even such standards as they have, with stewardship over the better part of a third of a billion dollars?

Except that thanks to the Journal, they remain ignorant of the truth.